Matthias, You are quite right, YOU ought to be able to install critical patches. The most likely explanation is that YOU was accessing a mirror site that was not quite up-to-date. Does it still happen? People are generally rude about YOU because the early versions were very poor. It has improved greatly since then, but has not lost its reputation. Bob On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Matthias Wieser wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 14. August 2003 09:01 schrieb Hilbert Steinbach:
before downloading and installing the new kernel think if you really need to upgrade within a patchlevel.
The upgrade YOU should propose would be within a patchlevel.
If you need/want urgently update, you can download the wanted kernel on ftp.suse.com (...).
Of course that's possible.
But YOU is really broken if it sometimes doesn't upgrade critical packages containing security holes.
Matthias
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